The steam machine was good in concept, the problem was that the software was not ready at ALL and the market was too niche. Most people alrady had a PlayStation or XBox for couch gaming and most games back then that were available on steam were not that well optimized for controllers.

They basically built the foundation over the past few years with steam input and proton so they could bring it all together to make an amazing handheld device.

You gotta fail somewhere to be succesful, and valve did just that.

Bingo. We even saw price increases on the EGS instead of reductions lmao.

People are coping so badly because they want to hate valve or something, idk. It’s cringe beyond believe. Of all the shitty semi-monopolistic companies you could hate, valve is at the bottom of the list.

Worker-owned businesses do not work on a large scale. If it would, more people would do it.

Please go back to lemmy.ml

Taking money away from one billionaire and giving it to another billionaire is completely irrelevant.

Also, of all the billionaires we have, gaben is one of the few I like. Steam has brought linux gaming ahead like nobody else ever did before, and there was no profit incentive until the steam deck which was like 5 years after the first release of proton, and that’s something I’m genuinely thankful for.

It’s kinda funny to read through this thread ngl.

Everyone claiming: “OH WOW PRICES WILL BE LOWER” or “OH MAN DEVS WILL PROFIT SO MUCH MORE!!!”

You know who profits? Publishers. The ones already taking 80 - 90% of a games revenue. Devs don’t see shit of that. And for indie devs that don’t have a publisher, the 30% cut is a godsend considering that steam is handling everything in the distribution chain.

You guys are fighting for corpos that want to buy their 5th luxury yacht.

games can get cheaper,

Hahahahahahahahaha

Judging the entire police force of a country by a case from 2005 is kinda insane ngl. I’m not saying every police member is an angel, but the overwhelming majority of german police is completely normal and trustworthy.

systematic violence against pro-Palestinian protestors

Bullshit. There is no such thing. You know what there is tho? A fuckton of anti semitic people that tend to get violent at demonstrations.

No, but I generally don’t read stuff that is funded and backed by antisemitic organisations.

I didn’t read the article, but aljazeera is a fake news factory and on the same level as RT in terms of believability so I won’t even bother reading it.

Yes really, and if you think don’t think so, you’ve never been to one of these countries

This. I think it’s kinda ridiculous to be proud of something you haven’t done anything for. I’ll much rather be proud of the thing I did than about shit like where I’m born or as what I’m born.

Nah that’s one of the chill ones.

If you remove the tankie instances, blahaj.zone is probably the most toxic one.

Lemmy in a nutshell. Certain instances a lot more than others tho.

Nah. Police in Germany and all neighboring countries is completely different.

Seeing the kind of tyrannical laws that were enacted in that country in the last couple of years, I’m very much in agreement.

Musk can still go piss off.

Lmao, no idea what went wrong there

Crazy thought, how about parents actually being parents again?

It’s not a games job to protect the children, but the parents job. It’s pretty weird we’ve got to this point here.

Dunno. Unless they just output feeds in chronological order and maybe add some filter which I have explicitly defined myself, I’m not trusting any algorithms.

Lemmy is an echo chamber you make yourself tho. There are no algorithms that push certain content to you. Obviously, if you only lurk on shit like hexbear, my condolences, but I don’t feel like Lemmy is an echo chamber, at least much less than reddit was.